-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crispin Hugo Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 2 versus 4 processors
Hi Ron, I am sorry but I don't understand what you mean. We are a software development company so our work has no standard at all. <SNIPPAGE> That last statement makes all the difference in the world. IF you are doing multi-tasking type work, the more CPUs that can be dispatched, SIMULTANEOUSLY in your address space(s), the better. >From a former life: We ran a 4 CPU shop with each Domain (AMDAHL) have 2 CPUs. I needed to test with 4 but couldn't get them (politics). A Federal Government customer was running with 4 CPUs and ran into a problem that we could ONLY get (reliably) when running with 4 CPUs. So for race condition testing, the more CPUs you can have (up to some point), the better. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
